Tucking up clothes in Salāt
Some muslims tuck up their clothes before they begin their Salāt which is something forbidden.
Ibn’Abbās related, ‘the prophet (Sallalaahu Alaihi wa Sallam) said:
‘I was ordered to prostrate on seven bones, was forbidden to tuck up my clothes and to collect my hair in Salāt’.(6)
Ibn Khuzaimah dedicated a chapter of his book “The Sahīh” for this issue and titled it with “Tucking up clothes in Salāt”.(1)
An-Nawawī said: ‘The ‘Ulamah agreed that it is a forbidden act to tuck up clothes, roll up sleeves or the like in Salāt’.(2)
Imām Mālik said -concerning rolling up sleeves, then performing Salāt in such a state:
‘If one did this act while working then started his Salāt in such a state, it is all right but if he did it intentionally for doing Salāt or during it then there is no good in it’.(3)
In my opinion, the prohibition mentioned in the hadīth is a general one whether one tucks up his clothes or collects his hair before or during doing Salāt.
An-Nawawī said: ‘Tucking up clothes or collecting hair is something detested. If one does Salāt in such a state, he has done something bad but his Salāt is correct and valid. Abū Ja’far, Muhammad Ibn Jarīr At-Tabarī held this opinion and related the ‘Ulamah’s unanimous agreement on it. Ibn Al-Munthir related from Al-Hasan Al-Basri that if one does such an act and then performed Salāt, he should repeat it’.(4)
Then he continued saying: ‘Al-Jumhūr’s opinion is that this prohibition is a general one whether it is done intentionally for Salāt or before it’.
Ad-Dāwūdy, however, said: ‘The prohibition is addressed to those who do this act intentionally for Salāt. The sounder opinion is the first one, which was held by the Sahāba and others’.(5)
(1) “Sahīh Ibn khuzaimah” (vol. 1 / p. 383).
(2) “Sharh Sahīh Muslim” (vol. 4 / p. 209).
(3) “Al-Mudawwanah Al-Kubrā” (vol. 1 / p. 96).
(4) Sharh Sahīh Muslim (vol. 4 / p. 209).
(5) The previous reference.
(6) Narrated by Muslim in the Book of Salāt, chapter: The organs of prostration and the prohibition of tucking up clothes and gathering hair in Salāt, (vol. 1 / p. 354) (no. 490), An-Nasā’ī in the book of Salāt, chapter: The prohibition of tucking up hair in prostration, (vol. 2 / p. 215), Ibn Mājah in the book of doing Salāt, chapter: Tucking up clothes and gathering hair in Salāt, (vol. 1 / p. 331) (no. 1040), Ibn Khuzaimah in the Book of Salāt, chapter: The prohibition of tucking up clothes in Salāt (vol.1 / p.383) (no. 782). I mentioned the first part of the hadīth’s narrations when editing “Man Wāfaqat Kunyatuhu Kunyata Zawjihi Mina As-Sahābah” by Ibn Hayawayh.
